Dominant antibiotic fighting against bacterial strains discovered in soil by the researchers from Rockefeller University at the laboratory at Upper East Side of New York.

Research revealed in the journal Nature Microbiology describes about an antibiotic agent that it has never ever been previously observed and comprises an ability of vanquishing major strains of bacteria thoroughly that resist multiple drugs.

Leading researcher of the discovery, Sean Brady, PhD, who is an associate professor and chemist at the Rockefeller University said in a statement that, “We’re missing most of the molecules that would have come from that extraordinarily productive platform.”

Newly dominant antibiotic fighting against bacterial strains detected in soil has dubbed by scientists as malacidin, which they observed in rats attacking and breaking down the Staphylococcus aureus cell walls that resist methicillin and also clearing the MRSA skin infections in the animals in just a day.

Malacidin represents the metagenomic acidic lipopeptide antibiotic-cidins, in which ‘mal’ means ‘bad’ in Latin and ‘cide’ means ‘kill’. It is also known as an indirect relative a potential antibiotic, daptomycin that utilizes calcium distort the cell walls of bacteria.

Brady added that, “We’re taking DNA directly out of soil samples. We put it into a bug we can grow, and we look to see whether those genes can confer the production of new molecules. We put that collection of genes into Streptomyces, and that bug now gains the ability to make the new molecules, which are the malacidins.”